Creating a seismic interpretation from imported surfaces

For details on how to import surfaces and seismic data, see Importing your seismic files and Importing horizons and faults. If you have seismic data but no surface interpretation, you can start interpreting from scratch, see Structural interpretation of seismic data for details.

Seismic interpretation or quality control of an existing interpretation is often one of the first steps in reservoir modeling, along with other steps meant to prepare your data for the modeling workflow. From such interpretations, which contain horizons and faults interpreted from seismic data, you will create stratigraphic models, fault models, 3D structural models and, finally, 3D grids that you can then use to prepare volumetrics reports and perform flow simulations.

Important   When you prepare a seismic interpretation there are two possible scenarios: 1) you have interpreted surfaces available in which case you should go to Importing horizons and faults or Working with data connectors and then continue with this section or 2) you are going to interpret surfaces with JewelSuite 2026.1 Subsurface Modeling; in that case, you first create an 'empty' interpretation after which you start interpreting, see Structural interpretation of seismic data.

Each seismic interpretation is associated with a 'Survey' inside the Seismic Surveys folder in the JewelExplorer. This 'Survey' contains the seismic data that has been imported in the solution and the JewelSuite interpreted or imported-and-associated surfaces (horizons and/or faults).

The following steps describe on a high level the process of creating a seismic interpretation from imported surfaces:

If you have imported seismic data, the 'Survey' will be automatically created in the JewelExplorer. If you do not have seismic data and no 'Survey' yet, but would like to place your imported surfaces in a seismic interpretation, create one first (prepare > Seismic > Create Survey) according to available information. For details, see Creating a survey.
  1. Create a new seismic interpretation (the placeholder) inside the 'Survey' to hold the interpreted surfaces you have imported. For details, see Creating an interpretation.
  2. Assign the surfaces to your selected seismic interpretation. For details, see Assigning surfaces to a seismic interpretation.
  3. Finally, to complete the preparation of your seismic interpretation, set the fault triangulation settings. For more on this, see Triangulation settings.